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Topical search portal

  • US 10,191,982 B1
  • Filed: 01/22/2010
  • Issued: 01/29/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. One or more computer-readable mediums having instructions thereon, the instructions configured to operate a network accessible computer system to perform the steps of:

  • receiving a search query over a computer network;

    identifying a topical area related to the search query;

    generating a plurality of categorical concepts associated with the identified topical area based, at least in part, on structured information from at least one topical data source;

    receiving one or more user instructions, over the computer network, for selecting one or more of the plurality of categorical concepts associated with the identified topical area;

    processing the search query through at least one search engine to produce search result data;

    generating and customizing, from the search result data and from the one or more selected categorical concepts, a network accessible, persistent guide page in the form of a web page containing the search result data organized as a collection of resources for the selected one or more categorical concepts associated with the identified topical area, wherein the persistent guide page is a single page and the collection of resources is viewable without leaving the single page;

    publishing the guide page to the network, upon receipt of a user publication instruction, to allow for (a) subsequent accessing of the guide page by users of the network, (b) subsequent modification of the guide page by users of the network, (c) sharing the guide page with users of the network, and (d) subsequent finding the guide page using a search engine by a user of the network;

    presenting a predefined list of categorical concepts to the user on the persistent guide page;

    receiving an input from the user identifying a categorical concept of the predefined list of categorical concepts and a resources of the collection of resources;

    associating the categorical concept with the resource; and

    reorganizing the persistent guide page to reflect the association between the categorical concept and the resource;

    wherein accessing the guide page causes the persistent guide page to be displayed on a device as comprising list of the collection of resources, wherein the list of the collection of resources is ordered based upon each resource in the collection of resources being associated with a single categorical concept of the plurality of categorical concepts, and wherein the list of the collection of resources is associated with at least three categorical concepts of the plurality of categorical concepts.

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